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  by  Emily E. Hogstad     October 23rd, 2017 On 27 May 1784,   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   bought a pet starling bird at a Viennese pet shop. Normally historians and musicologists don’t pay much attention to composers’ pets, but this starling wasn’t your average pet. Because when Mozart recorded the thirty-four kreutzer expense in his diary, he also transcribed a melody purportedly sung by his new bird. He included two versions: one that the bird sang (which included an out-of-place G-sharp), and another that was “cleaned up” for insertion into a piece of concert music. Eagle-eyed (or -eared!) listeners will immediately recognize this as the theme of the finale to Mozart’s seventeenth piano concerto, K453 . Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17    Believe it or not, this pet store purchase actually raises some serious musicological questions. Mozart wrote on the score that he completed the work April 12, and he wrote in his expense diary that he bought th...

* Karoline / Caroline von Greiner Pichler ( 1769 - 1843 ) was an Austrian novelist. * Through her husband's encouragement and her own desires she led a salon for many years that was the center of the literary life in the Vienna . Her salon was frequented by Beethoven , Schubert ... - As a young girl , Karoline met Haydn and was a pupil of Mozart, who regularly performed music of the Greiner's residence. She describes her former teacher ( Mozart) in her MEMOIRS published in 1843; " One day when I was sitting at the pianoforte playing the " Non piu andrai " from " Figaro ", Mozart, who was paying a visit to us, came up behind me; I must have been playing it to his satisfaction, for he hummed the melody as I played and beat the time on my shoulders; but then he suddenly moved a chair up, sat down, told me to carry on playing the bass, and began to improvise such wonderfully beautiful variations that everyone listened to the tones of the ...

  by  Hermione Lai    January 19th, 2026 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   is often introduced as a miracle. He was a divine child, and a celestial genius, like a marble statue with a powdered wig. But the moment you actually listen to his music, the statue starts to grin. Mozart’s music doesn’t stand politely in the corner, but it nudges you in the ribs, rolls its eyes, and occasionally trips over its own feet on purpose. What makes Mozart remarkable is not just that he was brilliant, but that he is very funny. And not accidentally funny, or funny because you know a lot of music, but genuinely and immediately funny in the way human beings recognise across centuries. As we celebrate Mozart’s 270 th  birthday on 27 January 2026, it becomes clear that his humour still works because it is rooted in human behaviour. Things like vanity, impatience, swagger, awkwardness, and the joy of seeing someone slightly overdo things.    The Oldest Joke in the Book Many M...

695,539 views Premiered May 29, 2022 Mozart Piano Concerto No. 22 in E♭ major, K. 482 András Schiff, piano and conductor Cappella Andrea Barca Mozartwoche Salzburg, 2015

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by Hermione Lai , Interlude Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   (1756-1791) penned a vast number of letters, starting from about the age of 14 and ranging to the last month of his life. Literally, thousands of these documents have been preserved, thanks to the foresight of his   widow Constanze   and her second husband Nissen. These unique documents are still the principal source of information about the events of his life and provide clues to Mozart’s character. In his letters, we find Mozart at his most intimate and unguarded, freely expressing his feelings about life, love, music, and the world around him. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart If we can trust current scholarly opinion, Mozart was a distinguished letter writer. In fact, he is described as “the most eloquent among musicians of his time.” During his travels he was a faithful correspondent, he wrote loving letters to his wife, and long money-seeking letters to friends and patrons. And as we all know, he also wrote some rather nau...